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Safety
Safety
RECOGNITION
Takes a
Village
By Sam Lamonica, Chief Information Officer
This is an overused saying, but when I think about IT-related activities to keep the office running.
how we, as an IT Department, provide services There is no one office that doesn’t have at least
and support to our company, it truly does take a one person who wears an honorary IT cap and
village. performs IT support-related tasks daily. To those
individuals, I say “Thank You!”
Our company has experienced amazing growth
over the past few years and the ability to provide The relationship that IT has with all the
uninterrupted 24x7 IT services is quite interesting departments within Rosendin is a testament
(i.e., see challenging); although, admittedly at to the fact that it takes a village. Our business
times, we do struggle with “getting it right.” The partners/stakeholders in Operations, Finance,
primary reason why Rosendin's IT team is able to BIM, Business Development, Marketing, Human LEFT to RIGHT: Chris Tobin, Crew General Foreman; Chris Ward, Junior Wireman; Ernest Ocampo Rojas, Junior Wireman;
Chris Kipe, Construction Wireman
keep the business moving forward every day is Resources, Training, Fleet--just to name a few-
because of the effort of all the great people who -are constantly engaged with IT in all facets of
make up Rosendin. We care enough about our technology. From supporting and enhancing our A crew in Arizona was working late on a 12-hour shift to meet the milestone of power energized to the IT
Room of a retail store. Vendors were scheduled to be on-site the following morning and the customer needed
company and in doing whatever it takes to help existing programs to designing and implementing power to all of the lights and outlets. The pressure was on to energize.
each other succeed. new state of the art technologies, these team
players are relentlessly side-by-side with us daily. When the crew was performing checks on the EEW Gloves, Chris Ward found that one of the gloves had a
From coast to coast, Rosendin has 15 different To all of our departments and employees, I say pinhole in it. The General Foreman, Chris Tobin, was notified of the issue and he directed the crew to stop
regional facilities throughout the U.S. that are “Thank You!” work and not proceed with the energization process. Chris then coordinated with Rosendin's Warehouse
surrounded by many job sites. In most regions we team to meet at the shop early the next morning to pick up new gloves. The power was energized that
keep a dedicated IT professional or two on hand It is one of the most amazing parts of being morning prior to the vendors arriving on-site.
for local support, and those brave IT soldiers do employed by a company with a great corporate
a magnificent job of keeping the regions up and culture, and employee owners who care. IT takes Rosendin's crew worked smart and safe by not letting the pressure from the customer skew their decision
functioning. But, very often, the IT staff who live a village! making process and not proceed until they had the proper equipment in the proper condition.
and work in the various regions are engaged in
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